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Bibliographie zur äthiosemitischen und kuschitischen Sprachwissenschaft XV: 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Bibliography for the Study of Ethiosemitic, Cushitic and Omotic ...

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Expressing future time reference in Kambaata

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2011
Kambaata (Highland East Cushitic) is an aspect-marking language with a prominent opposition between perfective and imperfective aspect. The absolute location of an event in time (tense) is expressed by devices other than verbal inflection or inferred from the aspectual value of a verb.
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Similative, equative, and comparative constructions in Beja (North-Cushitic) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
version avant révisionsInternational audienceThis paper deals with the various syntactic strategies used for the expression of similarity, equality and comparison in Beja in a comparative and typological perspective.
Vanhove, Martine
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Competing scripts: the introduction of the Roman alphabet in Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The introduction of the Roman script since the turn of the 20th century was the first attempt of mass alphabetization in Africa, and it has become the most important writing system. It was, however, not the first script on the continent. In Old Egypt and
Pasch, Helma
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"Issues and maize bread taste good when they're cool": Temperature terms and their metaphorical extensions in Kambaata (Cushitic) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
International audienceThis paper is an analysis of the basic and extended meanings of temperature lexemes and the grammar of temperature expressions in Kambaata in comparison to related Highland East Cushitic languages of Ethiopia. Globally, Kambaata has
Doyiso, Deginet Wotango, Treis, Yvonne
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Interjections in Kambaata [revised]

open access: yes, 2023
paper presented at the Vielfaltslinguistik 5 ...
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The expression of phasal polarity in Kambaata (Cushitic) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Paper submitted to "The Expression of Phasal Polarity in African Languages", edited by Raija ...
Treis, Yvonne
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